This Chrome Extension Prevents The Creation Of Profiles Based On Writing Behavior

If you are reading this because you probably hate all kinds of invasion of privacy , especially when you ignore the different techniques to create behavioral profiles. Most stakeholders using scripts on websites and social networks take advantage of social buttons to track the user, but nothing like based on your writing to generate a profile.

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While browsers offer anti-tracking options and there are all kinds of extensions that promise to block any threats to privacy, there is one that focuses on preventing the generation of a behavior profile based on the user ‘s handwriting, available for browser Google Chrome as Keyboard Privacy .

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As its name describes, this extension protects user privacy by preventing certain pages create a profile, based on what is written, but how it does, from the time it takes for an Internet user to write common words or write a certain key, until the time you spend to correct or write a key and then another , the report portal gHacks .

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Given this, anyone could feel unprotected, but simply install the extension Keyboard Privacy . And activate it from the icon that appears on the bar extensions The user has the choice between two different protection techniques : Gap Time to alter time that is down a key and then another, and Dwell time to alter the time a key is no longer pressed.

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Both options work well, according to the author of the extension , and the user can also choose whether to keep enabled the generation of a behavior profile based on your writing on websites you specify . With this, your browsing experience will be more personalized and less vulnerable to websites that are not trusted.